From the world of higher education:
“Mathew is the perfect leader for Albion at this moment. Mathew is a changemaker. He is somebody with big ideas; really a visionary who is a motivator of people.”
Dr. Maud Mandel
President
Williams College
“He is a listener first. The value-added that he brings is the ability to both synthesize and integrate multiple perspectives, and honesty in doing so.”
Dr. Paul LeMahieu
Senior Vice President, Programs
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
“What kind of person is Mathew? Powerful, but in a quiet way. I think of someone who is absorbed in the art of strategy, very concerned about the impact of his work. And to me that says a lot about one’s character.”
Dr. Timothy Eatman
Inaugural Dean
Honors Living-Learning Community
Rutgers University
“He’s a remarkably good listener; not a micromanager. He’s somebody who has identified fantastic people… and brought them along as young professionals, and you see them flourish. When he builds a team, they stay in place.”
Robert Hacket
President
Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation
“He is someone I could trust to help me build new things, and support the excellence of existing things.”
Dr. Karen Sibley
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
Brown University
“He’s truly an activist scholar, someone who understands that scholarship not only can be relevant to societal issues but that it needs to be.”
Dr. Lorlene Hoyt
Executive Director
Talloires Network
“Mathew is a leader who makes things happen. He is able to facilitate profound change that matters in the lives and work of real people.”
Dr. Tania Mitchell
Associate Professor of Higher Education and McKnight Presidential Fellow
University of Minnesota
“He’s someone who I think is well suited to be president of Albion, well suited to lead. He is someone who is bold, he is someone who is tenacious, and he’s certainly passionate in his purpose.”
Andrew Petter
President and Vice-Chancellor
Simon Fraser University, Canada
“He’s deeply passionate about the ability of higher education to make a difference in the world and its communities.”
Andrew Vann
Vice-Chancellor and President
Charles Sturt University, Australia
“He’s not the scholar on the hill. He’s not the detached academic. In some ways, that kid on the farm always comes out, because he rolls up his sleeves, joins hands with people, and says, ‘How can we get this done?'”
Dr. Don Levy
Director
Siena College Research Institute
“He’s a person whose integrity I trust as much as I trust anybody.”
Paul Stec
Vice President, Finance and Administration
Siena College
“Mathew is a bold, visionary leader with big ideas.… Dr. O’Neill has been a tremendous resource and support for our students.”
Georgina Manok
Assistant Director, Research and Assessment
Swearer Center, Brown University
“His leadership as I have witnessed it champions equity and supports agency for social change, providing opportunities for apprenticeship and building a wider public culture and democracy.”
Dr. John Saltmarsh
Professor of Higher Education
University of Massachusetts Boston
“Mathew is the ultimate dreamer and go-getter. What Mathew really excels at is bringing folks together.”
April Backus
Associate Director
Siena College Research Institute
“He empathizes, he listens and he coaches. I think it’s a really rare combination to find somebody that is a scholar but then also an entrepreneur.”
George Luc
Co-Founder and CEO
GivePulse
